Road Show (musical)
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Road Show (previously titled Bounce, Wise Guys, and Gold!) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman. It tells the story of Addison Mizner and his brother Wilson Mizner's adventures across America from the beginning of the twentieth century during the Klondike gold rush to the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s. The musical takes considerable liberties with the facts of the brothers' lives.
Road Show | |
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Music | Stephen Sondheim |
Lyrics | Stephen Sondheim |
Book | John Weidman |
Basis | Adventures of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner |
Productions | 2003 Chicago 2003 Washington, D.C. 2008 Off-Broadway 2011 West End |
The history and evolution of the show are extraordinarily complex, with numerous different versions and recordings.[1] After a 1999 workshop in New York City, the musical was produced in Chicago and Washington, D.C. in 2003 under the title Bounce, but it did not achieve much success. A revised version of the musical premiered Off-Broadway in New York in October 2008.